Nowadays, there is an increasing number of people who are interested in Chinese culture and language. And it is useful to know about the language when coming to China for travel or business. This is an ABC Chinese course for beginners, including introduction of phonetics and daily expressions. After taking this class, learners can have a basic understanding of Chinese Mandarin and make basic conversations of daily living such as exchanging personal information, talking about daily arrangements and food, asking about price, introducing the city and the weather, telling your hobbies etc. Selected topics and situations come from real life scenarios and can be used for everyday communications. In addition to the dialogues, the selection of reading materials and practice activities will make the content as rich and varied as possible, in order to stimulate the learners’ interests. This is an elementary course on Chinese speaking. The learners don’t need to study Chinese characters, so it is easier to follow and complete this course.

UA

This is fantastic effort from Peking University, for those who want to learn Chines. it just amazing. chines is very interesting language.....where we need to care of even sounds of a sentence......

NM

Apr 08, 2016

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it was an amazing class. perfect class to take for who works full time. few additional notions every week. the teacher patiently repeats several time ervy sentence to help with pronunciation. Thanks

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I Like Shopping!

Shopping! Shopping! Some people love to go shopping, while others feel it is a headache. Still, shopping is an essential part of our life. In this module, we are going to learn how to express our color and size preference, how to ask about price, and how to bargain. Do you know what the most popular color is in your country? How about in China?

Ministrado por

Xiaoyu Liu

Associate Professor

Transcrição

[FOREIGN] This time lets talk about something about bargain. But first of all, lets go over how to ask the price. [FOREIGN]. And lets take the fruits as examples which we have learned in the third week. Here they are. Apple [FOREIGN]. Banana [FOREIGN]. Orange [FOREIGN], to pronounce [FOREIGN] is [FOREIGN]. So if you want to ask, how much is the banana? [FOREIGN] If it's four, [FOREIGN]. Now let's talk about the price of orange, 'kay. [FOREIGN] If its ten. [FOREIGN] means expensive. [FOREIGN] Something that we have mentioned this week as is too, is over. That's too much. So [FOREIGN] is cheap. [FOREIGN] you can use after some describing words like [FOREIGN] to show a little cheaper than you said. Okay. If I think this one is a little better than that one, I can say [FOREIGN]. I prefer this one. [FOREIGN] If I want a larger clothing. I don't want this. I want that. I can say. [FOREIGN] is the measure word for clothing. Again. [FOREIGN] This one is a little bigger, larger. I want this one. [FOREIGN] 'kay? If you want to bargain, you can say it's too expensive. [FOREIGN]. And then a little cheaper, okay? [FOREIGN]. The seller might give you a lower price, as [FOREIGN]. Okay, a little cheaper. Sometimes, you will hear [FOREIGN]. He meant to say, this is not that expensive. [FOREIGN] Okay? And that you can try to bug in again. No. It's too expensive! [FOREIGN].